THE 2004 CORDELL EXPEDITIONS PT. SUR, CALIFORNIA SECOND EXPEDITION 8-10 Oct. 2004 We are pleased and proud to announce the successful completion of the second of the three scheduled expeditions to Schmieder Bank off Pt. Sur, and the completion of a major goal of the project. During 8-10 Oct. 2004, nine people carried out dives on the shallowest pinnacle on the Bank. Representative collections of specimens were made, including a large collection of the coarse gravel that is valuable for identifying hard-shell anomals. As before, these have been transferred to the L. A. County Museum of Natural History. Participants in this expedition were: Robert Schmieder (Expedition Leader) Jeff Bozanic (Dive operations) Pat McMurtry (Diver) Dave Mandell (Diver) Bob Crawford (Diver) Barbara Berg (Diver) Gregg Magrane (Diver) Oliver Magrane (Diver) Richard Graff (Diver) Kathryn Levenson (Medical/Emergency/Support) FIRST EXPEDITION 24-26 Sept. 2004 THIRD EXPEDITION 15-17 Oct. 2004